As explained in the documentation, RiC-O Converter was developed with and for the ANF and does not aim to be a generic tool, at least for now. It therefore has some limits. However, it may be a good starting point for any project that would need to get good quality RDF/RiC-O datasets from existing EAD or EAC-CPF files. We have documented it very precisely in English (in particular, see the EAD to RiC-O and EAC-CPF to RiC-O mappings, and the unit tests) to facilitate these adaptations. A good XSLT developer, knowing the formats of the source metadata, and having taken a little time to understand the essentials of RiC-O, can easily adapt RiC-O Converter. Finally, the ANF will continue to develop it, and we hope that a larger community will be formed to continue the developments.

Thus I do think it can help the archival community to use RiC and build large RDF/RiC-O datasets.

Best regards,

Florence ClavaudGeneral curator, Archives nationales de FranceExecutive member of ICA EGAD, lead of RiC-O development team